Anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to picket
in Edinburgh and Aberdeen at the end of October.
The church, which is based in Kansas, intends to picket at talks
concerning the ordination of openly gay clergy within the Church of
Scotland.
The first protest will be staged at the Church of Scotland
Ecumenical Autumn Conference in Edinburgh on Friday 28 October. The
extremist group will then picket at Queen's Cross Church in
Aberdeen on Sunday 30 October.
Speaking of the Church of Scotland's ongoing dialogue about gay
clergy, a Westboro Baptist Church press release states: "It's
starting to look like Scotland is doomed!" It adds:
"What part of 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind,
it is abomination' (Lev. 18:22) don't you
understand?"
Westboro Baptist Church, brought to international attention by
Louis Theroux's documentary The Most Hated Family in America, also
plans to picket the funerals of the victims of mass murderer Anders
Breivik in Norway. It claims that picketing the funerals will
serve to "warn the living" that the victims "died for your
sins."
